Tuesday, March 29. 2016
 Bison coming 'home' to Montana Indian reservation
Cool
‘No kill’ animal shelters have unleashed an epidemic of suffering. Is a life of misery any better than a quick death?
How the Government Stole Sex - Screw morality—the state is now intervening in American bedrooms under the mantle of stopping sex discrimination.
Feds to Fine Schools for Not Following Michelle Obama’s Lunch Rules
Her kids don't eat that crap
The NYT editorial board thinks AR-15s fire in ‘rapid bursts’
ACADEMIC ABSURDITY OF THE WEEK: VINDICATING MADONNA
Emory Doubles Down on Beclowning Itself
Williams College: ' Coddled’ students and their ‘safe spaces’ aren’t the problem, college official says. Bigots are.
Williams College must be a hotbed of bigotry
Does The United States Still Exist?
“What’s The Real Agenda Behind Climate Change Alarmism?”
Schism on the Left: James Hansen’s climatic ‘canon’ gets fired from a cannon
Immigrant population over 15% in record 16 states, over 25% in 6
Fundamental transformation
Obama reiterates refugee promise
Who voted for that?
Listen to the Victims of the Free Market
The Myths of Black Lives Matter - The movement has won over Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. But what if its claims are fiction?
Hey students! I would kill to be so oppressed!
Glenn Reynolds: How PC culture is killing higher education
Scripps College goes Emory
AN OPEN LETTER TO EMORY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT JAMES WAGNER
" I’ve seen very little from the MSM that leads me to believe that it has great affection for either this country, or the majority of the people who inhabit it."
Why STEM classes are tough on women and minorities
Examples of STEM classroom practices that contribute to a chilly climate are weed-out courses, courses that grade on a curve, a competitive environment, reliance on lecture as a teaching method, an individualistic culture, and comprehensive exams.
Useless things the government does with your money
ObamaCare may force employers to pull the plug on millions of health plans, CBO report finds
The Stupid Psychopath Problem
OBAMACARE AT SIX: A LEGACY OF DECEPTION - Virtually every promise the president made on behalf of his “reform” law has been broken
Milo on Bernie:
Milo Yiannopoulos: And be wrong about everything… Why is it that just because someone is old and left-wing that they’re nice? We don’t say that about right-wingers. Why do we automatically assume that just because he’s old and doddery, has white hair and he sounds like a crazy old lunatic that he’s a nice guy. Really? Is he a nice guy? No he wants Socialism in America. That’s poisonous, ugly, oppressive political philosophy that has made people suffer everywhere that it has ever been tried… Why is he a nice person? What has he ever done that proves he is a nice person?
Z-man:
Europe operating as a market-state without external threats and a pacified population gave the ruling class of Europe the sense that this arrangement would work long term. Then the king went crazy and flung open the doors to Muslim invaders. Initially, this was not a problem as the ruling class lives in bunkered enclaves, removed from the consequences of their polices. They have no reason to care if the train stations are carnivals and rape and assault by the dusky sons of Mohamed.
But, the people have noticed that their liberties are slowly and methodically being curtailed in the name of public safety. When you can only enjoy a traditional parade from behind barricades and armed soldiers, you’re going to start having dark thoughts about the people who caused this...
Why Britain (and Europe) depends on migrants
Sheesh. Screwed-up culture. There is no dignity in dependency.
Belgian Soldiers Deployed to Fight Terrorists Had No Bullets in Rifles
The U.S. Army Is About to Double Its Howitzer Range
Monday, March 28. 2016
Why Are Millennial Men Such Wimps?
Any college president who adopts the rhetoric of “safe spaces” is already lost.
Related, “MY THERAPIST JUST LAUGHED AT ME"
Professor Ordered To Apologize For Conservative Blog Post, Or Lose His Job
American College Of Pediatricians Warns: Youth Transgenderism Is Child Abuse
Blue Civil War Escalates - Connecticut Democrats are going after Yale
Why the poor in the US are not poor
America’s Ethanol Industry Shows Why it Needs Subsidies
Obama Administration’s ‘Equity’ Ideology in Public Schools Breeding Violence
Hillary: Consequences Are for Schmucks
Secrecy is the root of the Clinton email scandal
Trump Aide: People Are Angrier Over Trump’s RTs Than Illegal Immigrants Murdering Americans
Hey! Don't Overreact to That Issue, Overreact to My Issue
Organisers cancel Sunday's Brussels attacks 'March Against Fear' - for security reasons
How to deal with Islam? I repeat, take it at its word.
Europe Has 'Battered Spouse Syndrome' When It Comes To Islam
Russia is no threat, and NATO is obsolete
I agree:
In fact, the War Party entrenched in the nation’s capital is dedicated to economic interests and ideological perversions that guarantee perpetual war; they ensure endless waste on armaments and the inestimable death and human suffering that stems from 21st century high tech warfare and the terrorist blowback it inherently generates among those upon which the War Party inflicts its violent hegemony.
iU.S. leadership matters today, just as it did after World War II
Pope Francis Says Defeat ISIS with “Message of Love” – ISIS Says New Attacks on the Way
Loving your enemy is not about being effective. However, discernment is also called for.
As SDA notes, "Frog, meet Scorpion""
Liberal Teacher Takes In Muslim Refugee, His Colleague Finds What’s Left Of Him
Sunday, March 27. 2016
The Daoud Affair - How Western intellectuals turn themselves into the enemies of an entire class of liberal writers from Muslim backgrounds
The Western intellectuals accuse the liberal from the Muslim world of being a racist against Muslims, or an Islamophobe, or a “native informant” and a tool of imperialism. Sometimes they accuse the liberal from the Muslim world of stupidity, too, or lack of talent. This was Salman Rushdie’s experience in the years after he came out with The Satanic Verses, back in 1988, which he has described in his memoir Joseph Anton. The experience of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, originally from Somalia, offers probably the most widely discussed example after Rushdie’s. But the pattern of Western condemnation can be observed in many other cases as well, directed at liberal writers of different kinds and views—the authors of political essays, memoirs, literary criticism, journalism, and novels, from backgrounds in countries as diverse as Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Kamel Daoud’s Algerian colleague, the novelist Boualem Sansal, last year’s winner of a prize from the French Academy, has come under this kind of condemnation. And now the pattern has reemerged in regard to Daoud himself.
A Loaded Gun: The Real Emily Dickinson - She was less like a recluse, more like a bomb going off.
Saturday, March 26. 2016
Easy jobs for early Springtime today:
Purple pansies in a big pot - they do not mind cold nights
Planted a pack of Sugar Snap peas in the garden. Soil still cool and damp, but whatever.
Planted the 3 new dwarf hydrangeas in the front garden - they should be swell by July. A garden border is never done.
Moved some perennials around. Now is the time. A border is never done.
Planted my new hardy Chicago Fig in the back garden. Sturdy plant, hardly budded out yet. Counting on a modest crop this summer.
Put 2 new tires on my wheelbarrow - solid tires this time, from Home Depot. Got sick of the inflatable ones.
Started a tranche of Mouse Melon seeds indoors. Last year, I started them too late. Need more containers for more Mouse Melon seeds. Really do enjoy those little buggers and most people up here have never seen 'em. Need enuf seedlings to share with my gardening pals.
Limed the lawn. It works. Rule of thumb: Fertilize things before green or buds emerge cuz the roots have already started growing. I did the delightful Milorganite 3 weeks ago. Thanks, Milwaukee. I like strong grass that can take abuse. In early June I will aerate it with a rented plugger. A mess for a week, but trodden turf loves it and so do the worms. Lawn is a stupid thing, but...
Friday, March 25. 2016
The Endless Ages of Purim:
The story of the Megillah, the Scroll of Esther, is the story of how Mordechai, the descendant of the first Jewish king of Israel, snubbed the Grand Vizier of a multicultural empire by refusing to bow to him. The obstinate Benjaminite so infuriated the Vizier that he plotted to kill all the Jews.
The smart thing to do would have been to bow to Haman. To invite him to AIPAC and let him give a pre-written speech and then give him a standing ovation. Then the important official might have been willing to help out the struggling Jews of the Second Commonwealth in Israel. Instead the narrow-minded fanatic offended Haman. And the angry Agagite decides to strangle the newly reborn Second Commonwealth of Israel and all the other Jews throughout the Persian Empire...
Addendum: After reading this essay for the third time, I hear/see the historical idea of Christians, "in the world, but not of it." The Christian sees himself as a sojourner, a Pilgrim, through time too. Empires and nations come and go.
In Sushan, the wine is plentiful, the bazaars are never closed and the empire will never fall.
 Mizzou Is Now Forcing Undergrads to Complete “Diversity Training” Class for Graduation
ACADEMIC ABSURDITY OF THE WEEK
Israeli Apartheid Week may be coming to a campus near you. An antidote, not complicity, is needed.
Jesse Watters: If You’re Afraid of the Name Donald Trump You’re Either an Illegal Alien or a Total Sissy
Yoga Banned from Georgia School: Blame Christian Conservatives, Not Political Correctness - Turning kids against Christianity? That's a stretch.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?
New Jersey nonsense: Actor faces 10 years in prison for using a prop gun in movie
Washington is out of control.
Fascism, American Style
Obama Needs to Get Over His Self-Serving Guilt Trip - POTUS should read some honest, non-Leftist history
Never happen
Drug tunnel discovered from Mexico to California is four football fields long
James Comey and Loretta Lynch Hold the Whole Country in Their Hands
Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In World Says ISIS Not A Big Threat, But Climate Change Is
Z-man:
There never has been a practical reason to import foreigners into the West, much less hostile, low-IQ savages from the Middle East. Whatever contributions have been made to the Belgian economy by Muslims were just blown to bits by a pair of suicide bombers. There are now rivers of blood because the leadership of Europe has been overrun by what looks increasingly like a suicide cult.
Angela Merkel, who will be remembered as one of history’s greatest monsters, is a good example to study. This piece on her from a few months ago walks you through her “evolution” from mundane Christian lady to a prominent deacon is what amounts to liberation theology, centered on the annihilation of the West as penance for generations of oppression.
Jihadi Idol? Kerry Team Says Fight Islamic Extremism With ‘Television Drama Series’…
NY Times: Brussels Survived Terrorism, But May Not Survive Climate Change Or Something
Why do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton believe they know more about Islam than Muslim clerics?
... stubbornly unwilling to deal with the reality of Islam, our leaders have constructed an Islam of their very own. This triumph of willful blindness and political correctness over common sense was best illustrated by former British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith when she described terrorism as “anti-Islamic activity.” In other words, the savagery is not merely unrelated to Islam; it becomes, by dint of its being inconsistent with a “religion of peace,” contrary to Islam. This explains our government’s handwringing over “radicalization”: we are supposed to wonder why young Muslims spontaneously become violent radicals—as if there is no belief system involved.
This is political correctness on steroids, and it has dangerous policy implications.
NY Times Op-Ed: Europe has been living in a dream
VISIT BRUSSELS, YOU’LL HAVE A BLAST
Belgian Intelligence Had Precise Warning That Airport Targeted for Bombing
The Mafia Runs Guns for ISIS in Europe
Protests in Vietnam as prominent blogger goes on trial
Thursday, March 24. 2016
The story of Bill Levitt's Levittowns (h/t American Digest).
My family's first home was military housing. Our second, mortgage via the Vets. Our third, not. The farms were family heirlooms. Freebies, not earned.
Very much related: Transcending the Single Family Home It begins:
The single family home was an artifact of the blue model world. Before World War II, it was common for many generations of a family to live together. Before social security, grandparents didn’t have the money for independent living; children and grandchildren were a safety net. Often, extended families would live together, sharing chores, cooperating with child care and other activities.
But postwar suburbia changed all that: each nuclear family was supposed to be an island unto itself, and zoning laws in many American cities and towns changed to make illegal the kind of multi-family living that had once been the norm.
Where I grew up as a young lad in suburbia, a little old lady ran a candy shop out of her parlor. A gunsmith had his shop in his garage. At the farm, of course, everybody ran their business out of their places: farms, farm stands, blacksmiths, tractor repairs, etc. Farms were often multi-generational. And yes, in town, families lived over the store. It worked.
In cities, mixed zoning is a wonderful thing. Commercial on the first and/or second floors and residential above.
 Toon via Lucianne
Would not recognize Letterman
When Dinosaurs Roamed the (Not Yet) Petrified Forest
NY Becomes 50th State to Legalize MMA
Let’s Just Clone Harrison Ford
Pink Snowflakes Meltdown at Emory Over “Trump 2016” Chalkings
UND prof. vows to call cops on ROTC drills
Mandatory Sensitivity Training to Be Inflicted on Marines
Mandatory Sensitivity Training to Be Inflicted on Marines - See more at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=70214#sthash.7VYjGifp.dpuf
The Lie of Academic Free Speech
Just Think How Neat And Orderly Everything Will Be Once Government Functionaries Can Monitor Everything
One state with 600,000 people and an anti-GMO streak is about to rewrite U.S. food labels. What just happened?
Leftist Heads Explode Over ‘Anti-Muslim’ Terrorism Thriller
Janet Yellen: Monetary Arsonist——–Armed, Dangerous And Lost
Meddling with Medicare - A wrongheaded proposal could make it harder for sole practitioners and small family practices to stay in business.
When You Give Up On Allocating Resources via Markets and Prices, All That is Left is Interest Group Politics
Donald Trump, Uber-American:
Trump knows psychology. He knows facts don’t matter. He knows people are irrational. So while his opponents are losing sleep trying to memorize the names of foreign leaders – in case someone asks – Trump knows that is a waste of time. No one ever voted for a president based on his or her ability to name heads of state. People vote based on emotion. Period.
Donald Trump reveals inner statesman, terrifies naysayers
ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTERS Admit Answering Craigslist Ad and Getting Paid to Protest Trump
Cuba's charming, tragic time warp
Not so charming to live there
President Obama is in Havana because not even the Castro brothers
can cling any longer to the pretense that, somehow, socialism can solve
the problems of Latin America.
Migrants From Muslim Countries Big Beneficiaries Of US Green Cards
Tony Blair Blames Terrorism on "Flabby Liberalism"
He told the BBC: ‘We're in a situation where we have to fight back. ‘The centre has become flabby and unwilling to take people on. We concede far too much.
‘There's this idea that you're part of an elite if you think in terms of respectful tolerance towards other people. It's ridiculous.’
A new normal for Europe
IS trains 400 fighters to attack Europe in wave of bloodshed
"Fighters"?
Poland Abandons Pledge to Shelter Refugees After Brussels Blasts
Obama Regime Engaged In Secret Talks To Pay Iran Nearly $2 Billion
DO TERROR ATTACKS DOOM THE EUROPEAN UNION?
The vast demographic experiment of the West–importing largely unskilled immigrants from an essentially hostile culture–has failed and cannot be undone. Europe is now paying the deadly price. There have been mass murders by Muslim extremists in Madrid, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Brussels and Toulouse.
Wednesday, March 23. 2016
Pic from a friend yesterday skiing at Snowmass, Colorado. Blizzard conditions today. Denver airport closed. Well, they will get home for Easter.
 Female Researcher: We Must Make STEM Courses ‘Less Competitive’ to Be More ‘Inclusive’ of Women
Does signaling also help you to do better?
20 rules for making money from P.T. Barnum
I Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Easily Terrified:
It would seem that modern progressives are exceedingly selective in what horrifies and terrifies them.
Emory Students Complain School Is ‘Unsafe’ Because Administrators Tolerate Trump Support
Moonbats Ask Amazon To Suspend Sales Of Trump “Racism, Sexism And Xenophobia” Products…
In Face of Minimum Wage Madness, Carl’s Jr. Considering Automated Restaurants
Court Orders 6-Year-Old Foster Child Removed From Only Family She Knows—Because She's 1/64 Choctaw
I thought race was a social construct
Yiannopoulis: How to beat me
In
Face of Minimum Wage Madness, Carl’s Jr. Considering Automated
Restaurants - See more at:
http://moonbattery.com/?p=70154#sthash.V8a3IZc2.dpuf
Hillary Clinton Wants To Use Obamacare For Illegal Immigrants
Was Bill Clinton stoned yesterday in Arizona?
Why Trump is Afraid of 'Crazy' Megyn Kelly
TRUMP & FAUXCHAHONTAS
We are back in a ground war in Iraq
Flashback: New York Times mocked Trump for saying “there is something bad going on” in Brussels
Brussels Attacks Fuel Debate Over Migrants in a Fractured Europe
I would hope so
A terrorist attack has happened in Europe. Let the standard response begin…
Steyn: So "British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow's Train Bombing" is now joined by "Belgian Cabinet Minister Says Tomorrow's Train Bombing Is All Our Fault".
World War III
It's not a war
From The Atlantic:
Terrorism is an effective tactic around the world because it allows small groups of people to spread hysteria with relatively little manpower, and because it is impossible to prevent entirely, even in a police state. Where a devoted terrorist group exists, it is nearly inevitable its members will eventually succeed to some degree. But in Belgium, jihadists found a society that was unusually susceptible, and exploited it to bloody effect.
Tuesday, March 22. 2016
With trout season on the way, a useful chart. ("Exercised" means you played the fish a bit before netting):
Event, Seconds out of Water, and Survival Rate
Fish caught, exercised but not taken out of water 0 secs. 88%
Fish caught, exercised and taken out of the water 30 62%
Fish caught, exercised and taken out of the water 60 28%
Fish caught, exercised, placed in boat, handled and flops around
60+ 0%
Out my office window yesterday. That is a Cottontail, a lucky one who survived the winter's Red-tails, owls and foxes. Our bunny population peaks in Aug/Sept, and by this time there are just enough left to begin the cycle again.
Monday, March 21. 2016
Re exercise, via Ace: 'I finally have the body I want. It's easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.' - Louis CK
The Secrets of the Wave Pilots - For thousands of years, sailors in the Marshall Islands have navigated vast distances of open ocean without instruments. Can science explain their method before it’s lost forever?
Yale Grad Students Claim They Need More Therapists on Campus
American University candidates promise snowflakes 24-hour counseling, more ‘inclusion’
The school safety debate: Mollycoddle no more - There are two sides to the debate over school discipline, and the policy being pursued is wrong.
Moving beyond the contemporary ‘stigma’ of dismissing disruptive kids from the classroom, school
Rhode Island Bill Would Punish Parents for Latch-key Kids
Fact Checking the Washington Post’s Fact Checker on Trade and Manufacturing
The Finnish Model - Helsinki prepares to give every citizen €800 per month and shut down its welfare bureaucracy.
The Gender Pay Gap
Commercial solar is not ready
Former Secret Service Agent Explains The ‘Open Rebellion’ Against DC Politics
The Case for GOP Obstructionism
From the perspective of the political Left, racism is highly useful. I’m not just talking as a shaming tool. I mean as a political wedge.
David Brooks Should Sit the Next Few Plays Out - Take a breather, my guy.
2016 election is not important
Dem Michael Goodwin: Why it’s time for a Trump revolution
Comedy Central is basically a Hillary Clinton SuperPAC
Would Clinton vs. Trump Be the Ugliest Campaign in History? - Attack ads circa 1800 suggest otherwise.
Every Republican Presidential Candidate Is Hitler - The “Big Lie” has been around for over fifty years.
The Return of Socialism - It was lying in wait all these years, and now it’s come roaring back to life
When Trump gets serious: Trump by the Script
Trump scrambles American politics
LEAD ORGANIZER Who Shut Down Hwy to TRUMP RALLY Is “Soros Fellow” from New Orleans
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams on Donald Trump's "Linguistic Kill Shots"
Obama Addresses the Diaper Divide
Join the Campaign: Stop the Jew Hatred on Campus
Obama Addresses the Diaper Divide
The Road to Internet Serfdom - China, Russia, and Orwell’s boot
The costs of Obama’s Syria policy are apparent to everyone but him
Atheist British Author Challenges Liberals to ‘Become Jewish’ to Experience Antisemitism
Cuba: First Obama, then Mick Jagger
Who Is Salah Abdeslam? The French national
and accused logistical planner of the Paris attacks was arrested in
Belgium on Friday after months on the lam.
The Lethal Cocktail of Terrorism: The Four Necessary Ingredients that Go into Making a Terrorist & Fifty Individual Vulnerabilities/Motivations that May also Play a Role
“Raping Me is His Prayer to God. It’s Allowed. It’s Halal.” A terrifying look at the Islamic State's religious duty to rape.
Obama Has Already Destroyed World Order, So What’s The Beef About Trump?
If century-long trends continue, Canada will be a Muslim majority nation by 2050
Sunday, March 20. 2016
 It's time to plant bare-root fruit trees. A free ad for Stark Bros (in business since 1816)
Consider a hardy, self-pollinating Peach. I have had great luck with those, and never sprayed or fertilized.
 Luke 19:28-40
19:28 After he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
19:29 When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,
19:30 saying, "Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.
19:31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' just say this, 'The Lord needs it.'"
19:32 So those who were sent departed and found it as he had told them.
19:33 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?"
19:34 They said, "The Lord needs it."
19:35 Then they brought it to Jesus; and after throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it.
19:36 As he rode along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road.
19:37 As he was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen,
19:38 saying, "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!"
19:39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, order your disciples to stop."
19:40 He answered, "I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out."
Saturday, March 19. 2016
 Col. Sanders had a remarkable life.
Do I like Kentucky Fried Chicken, even in its current version? Yum. Much better than I can make at home.
(h/t American Digest)
The Role of Highways in American Poverty - They seemed like such a good idea in the 1950s.
Go-Getters, Gone?
How many jobs will the robots take?
This Is the Year Shale Gas Knocks Out US Coal
SANITY: Tennessee Law Would Outlaw Punishing Students For Speaking Freely, ‘Microagressions.’
Sultan:
Adulthood means doing things you don't want to do and discovering that they can make you the person you want to be. That's how virtue is born. Perpetual childhood prevents virtue from ever forming. Instead public life is cluttered with oversized children who have the language skills, resources and political power of adults, but none of the virtues that come with maturity.
"Thanks to progressive identity and victimization politics, some
70-75 percent of Americans are now in a protected victim group and
beyond social science research and analysis."
" the all-powerful central state worshipped by Reich and all the
other Establishment insiders, Democrat and Republican alike, is the true
culmination of fascism."
Say, where is the African-American revolt against Democrats?
When the citizens reject your socialist, big government world view - get new citizens.
How can anyone ever again be prosecuted for mishandling classified information?
National Review…the Trump Recruiting Office
Silencing Trump
The Gloves Are Off: Trump Accuses Hillary Of Being "Involved In Corruption For Most Of Her Professional Life"
Kluge: An Open Letter to the Conservative Media Explaining Why I Have Left the Movement
Wow
Political correctness implosion in Sweden
Gates: Obama Went Against ‘Entire National Security Team’ on Egypt Coup
Repairing the Special Relationship
We can´t stop the migrants: EU says Britain has ´moral duty´ to Turkey to accept refugees
The developments provoked fury among Eurosceptics. UKIP Migration spokesman Steven Woolfe said: “It’s clear that the EU has got absolutely no moral obligation to accept them.
“To say it is against EU values to send economic migrants back to home is ridiculous. And what are EU values? Ignoring referendum results in France, Netherlands and Ireland?
"Enforcing Euro membership to create poverty and unemployment for millions? Bullying smaller countries to comply with German demands?
“It seems to me that only value that the EU holds is to increase power for itself, and pay for its bureaucrats.
“The UNHCR estimates that there are 60 million displaced people in the world.
"The notion that the EU alone has a duty to take them all in is ridiculous in the extreme.”
Reading together one day for delight
Of Lancelot, caught up in love’s sweet snare,
We were alone, with no thought of what might
Occur to us, although we stopped to stare
Sometimes at what we read, and even paled.
But then the moment came we turned a page
And all our powers of resistance failed:
When we read of that great knight in a rage
To kiss the smile he so desired, Paolo,
This one so quiet now, made my mouth still—
Which, loosened by those words, had trembled so—
With his mouth. And right then we lost the will—
For love can will will’s loss, as well you know—
To read on. But let that man take a bow
Who wrote the book we called our Galahad,
The reason nothing can divide us now.
Here's a good brief essay on Dante translations: Dante: The Most Vivid Version.
Image on top is Domenico di Michelino: Dante Reading from the ‘Divine Comedy,’ 1465. Note that the lantern on top of Brunelleschi's dome is completed.
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